On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 07:28:35AM +0100, Robin Becker wrote:
I thought a desirable feature of distutils was to break away from the specialised distributions and create an automatic build system. Why do I need an rpm if I can down load and build from source? Is it the manager people who need these labelled lumps?
Even ignoring those people who don't want to install gcc and development tools, some modules may need new software to be built. For example, I believe PyQT needs SIP. If you already have SWIG installed, I'm not sure whether you want to download and install SIP just to compile PyQT. Similarly, people may not want to install bison, yacc, assorted development packages, etc. just to compile a module especially if they won't use them again. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Suchandra S. Thapa s-thapa-11@alumni.uchicago.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------